Geoffrey Woo (@geoffreywoo) is co-founder and CEO of HVMN, a research-driven company that provides nutrition to elite performers in sport and military. HVMN makes HVMN Ketone, the world's first ketone ester drink based on technology developed in a DARPA program to enhance soldier performance. In early 2016, Geoffrey started experimenting with intermittent fasting to activate metabolic pathways associated with longevity and cognitive function. To make the science and physiology behind the benefits of fasting more accessible, Geoffrey started WeFast, one of the largest online intermittent fasting communities, and became a widely cited spokesperson for intermittent fasting in the media. Geoffrey is a serial entrepreneur. He previously was CEO and co-founder of Glassmap Inc., a software technology company backed by YCombinator, a top venture capital group, and acquired by Groupon ($GRPN). [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590685" width="100%" height="200px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Subscribe on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Android | Overcast | Spotify | Youtube You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How diet impacts mental and physical performance

* The blood boy billionaires and methods of extending human life

* Why fasting and intermittent fasting are fast becoming the rage in Silicon Valley

* The ways top performers are enhancing themselves without resorting to harmful drugs

* Why we may be headed towards different species of humans

* The DARPA/US military science on superhuman performance

* How health, happiness and sleep affect human performance and success

* Why science often takes a long time to catch up to practice

* The reason the healthcare system is so screwed up

* Where we are headed with quantified-self movement

* Why Geoff is very excited about IoT and it's self-enhancement abilities

BTW HVMN is on Amazon! Transcript Producing this podcast and transcribing the episode takes tons of time and resources. If you support FringeFM and the work we do, please consider making a tax-deductible donation. If you can’t afford to support us, we completely understand as well, but an iTunes review or share on Twitter can go a long way too!   Geoff:  So, one of the most interesting technologies that we're working with today came from a 2003 DARPA program called Metabolic Dominance and a mandate for that program was to make sure that U.S. warfighters were the most metabolically efficient on the battlefield and that pathway that started problem was looking at a number of pathways, one of the most promising pathways was looking at [Inaudible] beta-hydroxybutyrate as a more efficient metabolic fuel for our brain and bodies.   Matt: Billions of dollars have been made on optimization software and education. And yet it's interesting that the operating system of all of us our bodies our nutrition is not something that typically sees the light ...